This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lcC.2ACI/341.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Is there a Mormon Church in your area? Quite a few of them have a center located at their church that is open for a limited amount of hours to the public to do research. They will request the records from Salt Lake City for you for a nominal fee (around $3 per fiche) and they will be available for you to go thru at that center for around a month. If you have found the record on the LDS website they will ask for certain source information like the batch number, etc. in order to request the records. Our County (actually parish) library has become an LDS center and can do the same for us here which is even better because they have the facilities to burn the records to a CD so that you can go thru them at home at your leisure.